Safety seat for window cleaners



I. BADAGLIACCA. SAFETY SEAT FOR WINDOW CLEANERS.

APPLIC TION FILED FEB. 21. I922- Patented Dec. 5, 1922.

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Application filed February 21, 1922. Serial No. 538,300; i

To aZZ whom it may concern:

' it known that l Josnrn BADAGLIACCA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Safety Seats for Window Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my said invention is the provision of a simple light, easily-applied and safe seat for holding a window cleaner in a window casing and comfortably supporting him while at work.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement'as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification Figure 1 is a perspective showing a safety seat of my invention.

Figure 2 is a view showing said seat in use. I

Figure 3 is an inverted plan view of the seat.

Figure 4: is a view similar to Figure 2, showing a modified seat.

Figure 5 is a side elevation showing said seat in folded state.

Figure 6 is a view, like Figures 2 and l, but showing another modified form of seat.

Figure 7 is an inverted plan of said seat.

Figure 8 is an enlarged perspective of one of the anchoring bars thereof.

Similar numerals designate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 3 to which reference will first be made. 2

My novel seat comprises a body 1, preferably of wood and a back 2. also preferably of wood.

Arranged in parallelism under the body 1 and riveted or otherwise appropriately connected to the same at the points 3 are anchor or holding bars 4 of steel, wrought-iron or other suitable metal. Intermediate of their ends the bars 4 are bent to form pendent loop-shaped supports 7, and the inner ends of the bars are shaped into hooks 8, in the lower portions of which clamping screws 9 are threaded, said screws having handles 10 and broad bearing end portions 11.

In practice the seat is applied and fits-- tened as shown in Figure 2i. e., the hooks 8 are arranged to straddle and are clamped on the innermost portion, of a window sill,

and the supports '1 are made to bear on the upper side of the outer portion 13 of the sill sofas to support the seat body 1 in horizontal position while the back 2 is strongly maintained in a position outwardly beyond the window casing. i v I Manifestly my novel seat is adapted to be conveniently carried from placeto place and quicl tly and easily secured in a window casing. It will also be apparent that the seat is both safe and comfortable to a cleaner working in seated position and when it is necessary for the worker to stand up on the seatbody -1. as is sometimes the case, the

back 2 constitutes a guard and brace for the feet, ofthe worker. I

In the modification shown in Figures 4:

' and 5, the seat body 1 is bolted at 3 and riveted at 3 to the anchor bars 1 below it,

and the said bars 4 differ from the bars 4 of Figures 1-3, in that they have long and strong pendent supports 7 adapted to rest on the outer portion 13 of a window sill and to extend outwardly beyond said portion. Also in said modification, the back 2. is hingedly connected at 14 to the body 1% and is riveted or otherwise connected at 6 to arms o that extend below the back 2 and are adapted in use to bear againstthe outer I edge'of the body 1 and the outer ends of the bar portions 7 so as to strongly brace and maintain the back 2 in the working position. 1

When the modified seat is not in use it s folded as shown in Figure 5 so as to facilitate carrying of the same from place to place.

In the modification shown in Figures 6 to 8, the anchor bars 4; are longitudlnally I slotted at 15 for the adjustable connection portion 12. The back 2* of said modification 'is connected at 6 to upwardly extending E -E l s .5 at the outer ends of bars 4 fixedly,

connected to the body 1 at the underside thereof.

The modified seat of Figures 6 to 8 is manifestly possessed of all the practical advantages hereinbefore ascribed to the embodiment shown in Figures 1 to 3.

I have entered into a detailed description of the construction and relative arrangement of the parts embraced in the present and preferred embodiments of my invention in order to impart a full,clear and exact understanding of the said embodiments. I do not desire, however, to be understood as confining myself to the said specific construction and relative arrangement 01 parts inasmuch as in the future practice of the invention various changes and modifications may be made such as fall Within the scope of my invention as defined in my appended claims.

Having described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

3i safety seat for WlDClOW' cleaners comprising a body, a back hinged to the body, anchor means connected with the body and having an integral hook to connect the body with the innermost edge portion of a WIlI1- dow sill and also having an integral deflected pendent portion to rest in superimposed relation on the outer portion of a Window sill; the outer portion of said anchor means being flush with the outer edge of the body, and an arm fixed to the outer side of the back and extending beyond the hinged edge thereof and arranged when the back is in use to bear against the outer portions of the body and anchor means.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature.

JOSEPH BADAGLIACCA. 

